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Cocaine drug prices increased worldwide: Cyberabad cops

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Hyderabad: Hyderabad: Shortage of cocaine in the international markets has spiked its price to around Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 20,000 a gram, said the police, said the top cop from the Cyberabad police here on Saturday.
The Cyberabad police arrested four people including a Nigerian who are part of a drug cartel linked to Goa and seized 303 grams of cocaine from them on Saturday. Stephen Raveendra, Cyberabad commissioner of police told reporters that the gang was selling the drug for anything between Rs. 15,000 and Rs. 20,000 a gram after bringing it from Goa.
Prices of cocaine in the international market have reportedly shot up due to a shortage of the drug in view of a worldwide crackdown on the cocaine and heroin smuggling. “Synthetic drugs are available at low price because they are produced locally. Cocaine is smuggled into the country from far-off countries and due to stringent action at all levels its price significantly increased,” said Stephen Raveendra.

Users from the affluent class use cocaine in small quantities, cops said.
According to anti-narcotic agencies in the city, Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. Coca is known worldwide for its psychoactive alkaloid. The plant is grown as a cash crop in the Argentine Northwest, Bolivia, Alto Rio Negro Territory in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru, even in areas where its cultivation is unlawful.
There are some reports that the plant is being cultivated in the south of Mexico as an alternative to smuggling its recreational product cocaine. It also plays a role in many traditional Andean cultures as well as the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
While Heroin is smuggled from Afghanistan to Mozambique and through various destinations like Johannesburg. It is sent later to India further it is in some cases, and otherwise destined for Australia and other countries.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 7, 2023
Cyberabad cops arrest man for holding, selling data of 67 cr individuals

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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Police on Saturday said they arrested a person who was allegedly involved in stealing, holding and selling of personal and confidential data of 66.9 crore individuals and organisations belonging to 24 states and eight metropolitan cities.
A press release from the police said the accused, Vinay Bhardwaj, was found possessing data of students of edu-tech organisations and also holds consumer/ customer data of major organisations like GST, Road transport organisations of various states, major eco-mmerce portals, social media platforms and fintech companies.
“The accused who was arrested on Friday was found selling personal and confidential data of about 66.9 crore individuals and organisations maintained in 104 categories,” it said.

Some of the important data held by the accused includes the data of defence personnel, government employees, PAN card holders, data of 9th, 10th, 11 & 12th standard students, senior citizens, Delhi electricity consumers, D-MAT account holders, mobile numbers of various individuals, NEET students, high net worth individuals, insurance holders, credit card and debit card holders among others, the release said.
The accused was operating through a website “InspireWebz” at Faridabad, Haryana and selling database to the clients through cloud drive links.
The police seized two mobile phones and two laptops and data of 135 categories containing sensitive information of government, private organisations and individuals, it added.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 1, 2023
Cyberabad police bust gang involved in stealing data of 16.8cr people

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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police on Thursday claimed to have busted a gang that was allegedly involved in stealing and selling confidential personal data of 16.8 crore citizens in the country, and sensitive data of government and important organisations.
The police arrested seven persons operating from Noida and Pune involved in theft, procuring and selling sensitive and confidential data.
The gang was also allegedly selling key data of defence and Army personnel to cyber criminals.
Cyberabad Police Commissioner Stephen Ravindra announced the arrest of the accused individuals at a news conference. He said they would write to the Home Ministry for further inquiry in the data theft case.
The accused were found selling information relating to more than 140 categories of people including defence personnel, bank customers, energy sector consumers, NEET students, government employees, gas agencies, high net worth individuals, demat account holders.
Other categories include Bengaluru women consumer data, data of people who have applied for loans and insurance, credit card and debit card holders (of AXIS, HSBC and other banks), WhatsApp users, Facebook users, employees of IT companies and frequent flyers.
“When any individual calls the toll-free numbers of JustDial and ask for any sector or category related confidential data of individuals, their query is listed and sent to that category of service provider. Then these fraudsters call those clients/ fraudsters and send them samples. If the client agrees to purchase, they make payment and provide the data. This data is further used for committing crime,” said the commissioner.
The gang allegedly operated through registered and unregistered companies Data Mart Infotech, Global Data Arts and MS Digital Grow.

Sensitive data of 2.5 lakh defence personnel containing their ranks, email ids, place of posting, etc was found available those accused.
Data of 1.1 customers of six banks, 1.2 crore WhatsApp users, 17 lakh Facebook users, and 35,000 employees of the Delhi government was accessed by the fraudsters.
The accused had also accessed data of 98 lakh people who had applied for credit cards.
“The sensitive data can be used for unauthorised access to important organisations and institutions. The data of defence and government employees can be used for espionage, impersonation and commit serious offences which may jeopardise national security. The data related to PAN cards can be used to commit serious offences. The data is being used to commit a large number of cybercrimes by gaining confidence with victims by disclosing the information,” Stephen Ravindra said.
Key accused Kumar Nitish Bhushan had established a call centre in Noida and collected credit card databases from another accused, Muskan Hassan.
Pooja Pal and Susheel Thomar were working as tele-callers at Bhushan’s call centre.
Atul Pratap Singh had collected data of credit card holders and sold it on a profit basis through his company “Inspiree Digital”.
Muskan, who previously worked as a tele-caller at Atul’s office, established her company “MS Digital Grow”. She was selling data as a mediator. She had arranged the data from Atul and sold it to Bhushan.
Sandeep Pal had established Global Data Arts and used Justdial services and social media platforms to sell customers’ confidential data to fraudsters indulging in cyber offences.
Seventh accused Zia Ur Rehman was providing bulk messaging services for promotions and also shared the database to Atul and Bhushan.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 23, 2023
Hyderabad: Cyberabad police 3 for loan fraud, cheating public

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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police’s cybercrime cell apprehended a gang involved in loan frauds. The accused would source bank accounts and SIM Cards on mule identities in Telangana and other states. The gang comprises call center operators, tele callers and suppliers of bank accounts, ATM cards and SIM cards.
According to the Cyberabad police, the arrested persons are Subash Kumar, Shreekant Kumar and Amit.
One of the common methods used by these people is that they put online advertisements for quick loan disbursals using the names of trusted organizations such as Bajaj Finance and mention their contact numbers in the advertisement.
“When somebody clicks on the advertisement or its link, they send them a message or sometimes people call the fraudster’s number given in the advertisement. In the guise of providing a loan, the fraudsters take money from victims on various pretexts like Loan insurance fee, loan agreement charge, GST, Loan processing fee etc.,” said Stephen Raveendra, Cyberabad police commissioner.
He added that people pay up the amount because they think that by paying money, they will get the loans. The money received from victims is taken into mule bank accounts sourced by fraudsters. Later, all payments made by victims are transferred multiple times through various accounts to prevent detection and finally withdrawn, said the officer.
The accused sourced and sold more than 675 mule bank accounts and 725 mule SIM cards and committed fraud.
The Cyberabad police seized 17 debit cards of different banks, three bank pass books, four smartphones and fake loan offer and confirmation letters

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 31, 2023
Hyderabad: Cyberabad police arrested Int’l gang operating gaming, betting apps

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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police on Monday arrested an international gang for allegedly collecting huge payment fees through online gaming and betting applications on fraudulent websites and social media.
The arrested person are Mohin Pasha, resident of Bengaluru, Karan Arora of Rudrapur Uttarakhand, Sanjeev Kumar of Uttarakhand, Karan Malhotra of New Delhi, Gokul Singh Koranga of Uttarakhand, Sonu Lokesh of Delhi, Mohit Kumar of Delhi and Dinesh Singh of Noida.
The property seized from the possession of the accused is Rs 24 crores frozen in various banks, mobile phones 193, laptops 21, Point of Sale Device, 21 cheque books 416, and debit cards 233.
The arrested fraudsters were recruited to interact with the users and collect the details from victims for registration of new user ID’s. The gang collects the screen shot of the transactions made by users and after verifying with bank account they give online gaming and betting services which are banned in Telangana State.
The fraudsters initially credit nominal returns as profit to users and after gaining their trust they collect huge amounts and cause losses to them by manipulating the game themselves and deciding winners internally.
Poor and needy people are targeted by giving nominal commission, collect their KYC documents. They get an amount credited into those bank accounts from victims using these online gaming and betting applications. By making multiple transactions, the fraudsters make it seem they are having legitimate business and individuals are receiving regular money, thus legitimizing the money.
“The gang has procured fraudulently opened bank accounts of various innocent persons and have taken pre-activated SIM cards through fraudulent means. Stringent legal action is being initiated against all persons and organisations who are abusing the system and adopting practices which aid such criminals in the commission of crime,”aid Stephen Raveendra, Cyberabad Commissioner of Police said.
The police advised the general public not to share personal data for any marketing or advertising reasons without verifying the reasons for which it is being collected. It also advised people against opening your bank accounts or get SIM cards through agents or unknown persons.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 30, 2023
Hyderabad: Six men arrested in job fraud case in Cyberabad

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Hyderabad: The Sleuths of Cyber Task Force, Cyberabad, Madhapur Zone Police and Cyber Crime Police conducted raids at Noida, UP and Nalanda, Bihar and apprehended six members of a gang involved in job fraud cases and seized 15 mobiles, a Laptop, a printer, three debit cards and an employees register.
The arrested persons are Sunny Kumar, 22 years, Archana Singh, 27 years, Ruchi Bharathi, 25 years, Shavi Pal, 27 years, Shanti, 22 years and Meena Rajput, 24 years.
According to the police, in the month of October last year 25 cases of job fraud had been reported in Cyberabad limits, and the Telangana State Police Centre of Excellence for Cyber Safety (TSPCC) worked out the clues in all these cases wherein, the accused persons lured and collected money from the victims.
A Cyber Task Force was deployed. The Special Team went to Noida, U.P. and Nalanda, Bihar and identified the call centre and conducted simultaneous raids and apprehended six gang members, said Stephen Raveendra, Commissioner of Police Cyberabad.
The accused persons have taken a flat on rent in the pretext of running a recovery agency of HDFC. On uploading the bio-data of unemployed youth in job portals like Monster.com, etc., for a job, the fraudsters are selecting some of the innocents from the job portal websites and calling them by introducing themselves as executive/manager and assuring for providing job in Multinational Companies with high salaries.
“The fraudsters are asking money from unemployed youth stating various reasons like for Registration, Resume update, conducting interviews etc., The fraudsters are also sending the offer letters of various companies. They are procuring pre-activated SIM cards and cell phones for calling and trapping the victims and also purchasing bank accounts from various banks to transfer the lured amount,” the Commissioner stated.
The gang is conducting interviews through Google Meet. After receiving the money, the fraudsters are impersonating as senior employees of various MNCs and they call the candidate/victim and conduct a telephonic interview.
Once the victim starts responding to the messages/mails of the fraudster believing him to be innocent, the fraudster starts interacting with the victims over mobile phone and through mails of fake mail IDs of various job portals and force the candidates to remit huge cash into the bank accounts.

“After the payments are made into the bank accounts of the fraudster, the fraudster stops responding to the calls of the victim,” he added.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 30, 2023
Hyderabad: Cyberabad police arrest 8 for organised prostitution

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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police arrested eight people for ‘procuring women” from across India and luring them into prostitution at different hotel rooms in the city.
The accused were involved in four cases of prostitution and used websites like Skokka.in, Locanto, Vivastreet etc and operated their business out of Hyderabad. Further, the accused used WhatsApp to promote organised prostitution.
The accused have a past record of being involved in cases under Section 370 (A) (Buying or disposing of any person as a slave) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 3, 4, 5, 6 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.
The anti human trafficking unit arrested accused Mohit Satpal Garg, Jai Saha, Zanwar Vishal, Sohail Ahmed, Mohammed Khaleel, Muntha Srikanth, Mulla Nasrin and Mehedi Das.
The above accused are have been booked under the Madhapur and Gachibowli police station limits. 31 smart phones, four keypad phones, five laptops, two Aadhar cards, pan cards and other bank cards were taken from them.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

January 27, 2023